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I’m amazed to learn that we are the only nation that uses keyboard spam for laughing. Why? It’s funny!
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Germans and laughter go together like two north poles of a magnet.
Only for those that don't speak the language. German humor is not that different from British dark/satiric humor and there is plenty of it around here.
This place tends to be pretty dry.
skldkfşdldldjjddkldjdlslsdjkd I’m amazed to learn that we are the only nation that uses keyboard spam for laughing. Why? It’s funny!
We also do rsrsrs, kkkkk, hehe, haha, hihi, ahuahauh and huehue.
A few more here:
https://zooando.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/tipos-de-risadas-do...
German is conspicuously absent…
If your language has its own word for the concept of taking pleasure in other people's misfortunes, you don't need to have any great comedians (left [0]) to be able to laugh. Part of the family of haha, hehe and hihi is höhö in German, which can be used as a sarcastic laugh to a particularly bad joke, halfway between a ho-ho-ho and a hehe. Also when speaking out loud, the pronunciation of lol in German is always "lol…
Definitely noticed that people from some countries (Eastern Europe?) write "ahahah" instead of "hahaha" when expressing amusement when writing English.
In Polish you can do both, and at least to me they feel slightly different - the first "a" represents the small pause while you quickly take in the air before you start laughing. To me this indicates an element of being surprised, and the reaction being natural. I think that "ahaha" is a lot less likely to be used sarcastically than "haha". Anyway, those are just my intuition as a native speaker - I'm not sure whethe…
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Actually from Starcraft, it's the Korean way to say hahaha (kekeke).
I don't speak or read Korean, but I think kekeke might be a transliteration of ㅋㅋㅋ - I've seen that frequently enough in Korean language comments on YouTube that I've looked it up before. A quick web search led me to more Korean lols and hahas... https://domandhyo.com/2017/07/lol-in-korean-%E3%85%8B%E3%85%...
Not one mention of huahuehuahue ? https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/huahuehuahue
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Actually from Starcraft, it's the Korean way to say hahaha (kekeke).
Wasnt it bcs alliance text appeared different to horde and kek translated to lol